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Book Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
- A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
- They liked the book better the more it made them cry.
- The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.
- One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is…
- Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still…
- In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.
- I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
- The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a…
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